BENJAMIN PINGREE

PRESIDENT

Pingree, has a master's in
public administration from Florida State University, and started as a
management and budget analyst for the Leon County Commission in 2000. He
followed that with three years as special projects coordinator and two years as
assistant to the county administrator.

Pingree left Leon County in 2007 to become Wakulla County Administrator,
where he served nearly four years. After a two-and-a-half-year stint as
president and CEO for the Zoological Society of Florida in Miami, he joined the
Leon County Economic Development Council in July 2013 as vice president over
business retention and expansion. He took over as executive vice president in
August 2014. In 2016, he was hired as the director of the joint City of
Tallahassee-Leon County Department of Planning, Land Management and Community
Enhancement (PLACE), which includes Blueprint 2000. He currently oversees land
use and transportation planning as well as the administering of $90 million in
Blueprint dollars, money set aside for economic development beginning in 2020.